Not need to be afraid of competition from big companies. Their employees are on your side, they don't care the products and work hard as you!
It's a lesson learnt from @alexwestco's startup story!
@levelsio That disagreement implies blue ocean strategy. No one successfully did it before, and if you did, you will be the market leader.
A controversial product is double edged
Not need to be afraid of competition from big companies. Their employees are on your side, they don't care the products and work hard as you!
It's a lesson learnt from @alexwestco's startup story!
@alexwestco Consider B2B market, companies are more willing to spend money compared to individuals
3rd thing I learnt from your story after reading it yesterday
@alexwestco Employees in your competitors companies are on your side. They don't always work hard for companies' products, so need to be afraid of them even they have lots of employees!
2nd thing I learnt from your story after reading it yesterday
@alexwestco Go for a validated market & don't afraid of competition from big companies.
1st thing I learnt from your story after reading it yesterday
Before starting a startup ask yourself
- who are the customers of my product?
- which jobs do they need to get done?
- where are they?
If you have a clear answer to all of them, that's a good starting point to succeed.
@victor_bigfield I made my first sale with Canva.
I made a design with Canva, put it on Redbubble and someone purchased it.
It was just an image randomly grabbed from internet plus 1 sentence
And I'm actually poor at drawing and designing
If you have a wifi connection
And 0 skills.
You can start a business:
❌ You're not a designer → Canva ✅
❌ You're not a developer for build Lp→ Carrd ✅
❌ You're not a copywriter → GPT chat ✅